Abbreviations

This table provides a key to the most commonly used abbreviations in the catalogue.

Abbreviation	Abbreviation	Full reference
AB		Analecta Bollandiana, 1– (Brussels, 1882– )
ABAW		Abhandlungen der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, phil.-hist. Kl., 1–34 (Munich, 1835–1928), NF 1– (1929ff.)
Acta Sanctorum		J. Bollandus, Acta sanctorum quotquot toto orbe coluntur … (Antwerp, 1643– )
AFH		Archivum Franciscanum historicum, 1– (Quaracchi, 1908– )
AFP		Archivum Fratrum Praedicatorum, 1– (Rome, 1931– )
AH		Analecta hymnica medii aevi, eds G. M. Dreves et al., 55 vols (Leipzig, 1886–1922)
AHDLMA		Archives d’histoire doctrinale et littéraire du moyen âge, 1– (Paris, 1926– )
AL		Aristoteles Latinus: Codices, ed. G. Lacombe et al., i (Rome, 1939), ii (Cambridge, 1955), Supplementa altera (Bruges, Paris, 1961)
Alexander and Temple		J.J.G. Alexander and E. Temple, Illuminated Manuscripts in Oxford College Libraries, the University Archives and the Taylor Institution (Oxford, 1985)
ALMA		Archivum Latinitatis Medii Aevi, 1– (Paris, 1924– )
AnOCist		Analecta sacri ordinis Cisterciensis, vols 1– (Rome, 1945– )
AO		J. Foster, Alumni Oxonienses, early series, 4 vols. (Oxford, 1891–2)
Bale, Index		John Bale, Index Britanniae scriptorum: John Bale’s Index of British and Other Writers, ed. R. L. Poole and M. Bateson (Oxford, 1902), repr. with an introduction by C. Brett and J. P. Carley (Cambridge, 1990)
BAMAT		J.-P. Rothschild et al., Bibliographie annuelle du moyen âge tardif: auteurs et textes latins, 1– (Paris & Turnhout, 1991– )
BAV		Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
BHG		Bibliotheca hagiographica Graeca, 3rd ed., 3 vols. (Brussels, 1957)
BHL		Bibliotheca hagiographica latina, 2 vols. (Brussels, 1898-1901); suppl. Brussels, 1986
BL		British Library, London
Bloomfield		M. W. Bloomfield et al., Incipits of Latin Works on the Vices and Virtues, 1100–1500 A. D. (Cambridge, Mass., 1979)
BLR		Bodleian Library Record, 1– (Oxford, 1939– )
BMC		British Museum, Catalogue of Books Printed in the Fifteenth Century now in the British Museum, 12 vols. (London, 1908–85)
BnF		Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
Boase1		C. W. Boase, Register of the Rectors and Fellows … of Exeter College Oxford with Illustrative Documents and a History of the College, 2 vols. (Oxford, 1879, 1894)
Boase2		C. W. Boase, Registrum collegii Exoniensis …, new edn., OHS, 27 (Oxford, 1894)
Briquet		C-M Briquet, ed. Allan Stevenson, Les filigranes: Dictionnaire historique des marques du papier des leur apparition vers 1292 jusqu'en 1600: A Facsimile of the 1907 edition with supplementary material contributed by a number of scholars, 4 vols. (Amsterdam, 1968)
BRUC		A. B. Emden, A Biographical Register of the University of Cambridge to 1500 (Cambridge, 1963)
BRUO		A. B. Emden, A Biographical Register of the University of Oxford to A. D. 1500 (Oxford, 1957–9)
BRUO 1501–1540		A. B. Emden, A Biographical Register of the University of Oxford A.D. 1501 to 1540, 3 vols. (Oxford, 1974)
Brou		D. L. Brou, The psalter collects from V–VIth century sources (Three Series), Henry Bradshaw Society 83 (London: Henry Bradshaw Society, 1949)
Bruyne		D. de Bruyne, Préfaces de la Bible latine (Namur: Auguste Godenne, 1920)
BSB		Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich
Bursill-Hall, Census		G. L. Bursill-Hall, A Census of Medieval Latin Grammatical Manuscripts (Stuttgart, 1981)
CALMA		Compendium Auctorum Latinorum Medii Aevi, eds M. Lapidge et al., vol. 1– (Florence, 2000– )
Cameron		Angus Cameron, `A List of Old English Texts' in A Plan for the Dictionary of Old English, ed. R. Frank and A. Cameron (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1973), pp. 25-306; online: https://tapor.library.utoronto.ca/doe/#listoftext
CBMLC		Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues
CCCM		Corpus Christianorum, Continuatio Medievalis
CCSL		Corpus Christianorum, Series Latina
Chevalier	RH, Rep. Hymn.	U. Chevalier, Repertorium hymnologicum, 6 vols (Louvain, 1892-1921)
CIC		Corpus iuris civilis, i: Institutiones, Digesta, ed. P. Krueger and Th. Mommsen (Berlin, 1870, repr. 1954); ii: Codex Justinianus, ed. P. Krueger (Berlin, 1892)
CMA		(E. Bernard), Catalogi manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae (Oxford, 1697)
CPG		M. Geerard [et al.], Clavis patrum Graecorum, 2nd ed., 6 vols. (Turnhout, 1974-1987)
CPL		E. Dekkers and E. Gaar, Clavis patrum Latinorum, 3rd ed. (Turnhout, 1995)
CPPM		Clavis patristica pseudepigraphorum medii aevi (1990-)
CPTMA		Corpus Philosophorum Teutonicorum Medii Aevi, 1– (Hamburg, 1977– )
CSEL		Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum
CUL		Cambridge University Library
DA		Deutsches Archiv für Geschichte des Mittelalters (1–7 (Münster, 1937–1944)); 8ff. (1950/1951– ): Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters
Dean & Boulton		Ruth J. Dean and Maureen B.M. Boulton, Anglo-Norman literature : a guide to texts and manuscripts (London, 1999)
van Dijk		S. J. P. van Dijk, Handlist of the Latin liturgical manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford, 7 vols in 8 (unpublished typescript 1957–1960)
DNB		Dictionary of National Biography, now Oxford DNB
DIMEV		Digital Index of Middle English Verse
DS		Dictionnaire de spiritualité, eds M. Viller et al., 1–17 vols (including index) (Paris, 1932–1995)
DSO		Joannis Duns Scoti doctoris subtilis, ordinis minorum opera omnia. Editio nova juxta editionem Waddingi XII tomos continentem a patribus franciscanis de observantia accurate recognita, 26 vols. (1891, repr. 1969)
DTM		Deutsche Texte des Mittelalters, 1– (Berlin, 1904– )
EETS		Early English Text Society, Original Series 1– (London, 1864– )
Emden	BRUC	A. B. Emden, A Biographical Register of the University of Cambridge to A.D. 1500, 3 vols. (1963)
Emden	BRUO	A. B. Emden, A Biographical Register of the University of Oxford to A.D. 1500, 3 vols. (1957-9)
eTK		L. Thorndike and P. Kibre, A catalogue of incipits of mediaeval scientific writings in Latin, 2nd ed (London, 1963); online: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.31355; electronic edition: http://cctr1.umkc.edu/cgi-bin/medievalacademy (e.g. eTK 0447A, column number with added letters for entries)
eVK		Linda Ehrsam Voigts and Patricia Deery Kurtz, Scientific and Medical Writings in Old and Middle English: An Electronic Reference CD, revised digital edition (2019)
Frere		W. H. Frere, Bibliotheca musico-liturgica: a descriptive handlist of the musical and Latin-liturgical MSS. of the Middle Ages preserved in the libraries of Great Britain and Ireland, 2 vols (London, 1901–1932)
Friedberg		E. Friedberg, Corpus iuris canonici, 2 vols (Leipzig, 1879 & 1881; repr. Graz, 1955)
GCS		Die Griechischen Christlichen Schriftsteller
Glorieux	Arts.	P. Glorieux, La Faculté des arts et ses maîtres au XIIIe siècle (Paris, 1971)
Glorieux	Migne	P. Glorieux, Pour revaloriser Migne. Tables rectificatives, Mélanges de science religieuse 9, Cahier supplémentaire (Lille, 1952)
Glorieux	Quodl.	P. Glorieux, La littérature quodlibétique (de 1260 à 1320), 2 vols, Bibliothèque Thomiste 5 & 21 (Paris, 1925 & 1935)
Glorieux	Théol.	P. Glorieux, Répertoire des maîtres en théologie de Paris au XIIIe siècle, 2 vols. (Paris, 1933-4)
Glossenhandschriften		R. Bergmann & S. Stricker, Katalog der althochdeutschen und altsächsischen Glossenhandschriften. Band III: Teil C. Katalog Nr. 493–779 (Berlin & New York, 2005)
Gómez, Catálogo		E. Gómez, ‘Catálogo de los Manuscritos de escritores dominicos en la Universidad de Oxford’, Ciencia tomista, 23 (Salamanca, 1931) 53–68
Goy		Rudolf Goy, Die Überlieferung der Werke Hugos von St Viktor (Stuttgart, 1976)
Grégoire		R. Grégoire, Homéliaires liturgiques médiévaux : analyse de manuscrits (Spoleto, 1980)
GW		Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke (https://www.gesamtkatalogderwiegendrucke.de/)
Heawood		Edward Heawood, Watermarks mainly of the 17th and 18th centuries. Hilversum (The Paper Publications Society) 1950 (Monumenta Chartae Papyraceae, vol. I).
Hain		L. Hain, Repertorium bibliographicum, 8 vols. (Stuttgart, 1826-38, repr. Milan, 1948), with Supplement by W. A. Copinger (London, 1895-1902; repr. Milan, 1950)
De Hamel, Glossed books		C. F. R. de Hamel, Glossed books of the bible and the origins of the Paris booktrade (Woodbridge, 1984)
Hamesse		J. Hamesse & S. Szyller, Repertorium initiorum manuscriptorum Latinorum medii aevi, 4 vols, Textes et études du moyen âge 42, 1–42, 4 (Louvain-la-Neuve, 2007–2010)
Hardy, Materials		T. D. Hardy, Descriptive Catalogue of materials relating to the history of Great Britain and Ireland to the end of the reign of Henry VII, 3 vols in 4, RS 26 (1862–1871)
Hartmann, LD		C. Cardelle de Hartmann, Lateinische Dialoge 1200–1400. Literaturhistorische Studie und Repertorium, Mittellateinische Studien und Texte 37 (Leiden & Boston, 2007)
Hauréau	Initia	B. Hauréau, Initia operum scriptorum Latinorum medii potissimum aevi ex codicibus manuscriptis et libris impressis alphabetice digessit, 6 vols, 2 vols appendices (A. G. Schmeller & G. Meyer) (Turnhout, [1973–1974])
Hauréau	Notices et extraits	B. Hauréau, Notices et extraits de quelques manuscrits latins de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 6 vols (Paris, 1890–1893, repr. Farnborough, 1967)
Hutter		I. Hutter, Corpus der byzantinischen Miniaturenhandschriften (1977-1997)
ICL		D. Schaller & E. Könsgen, Initia carminum Latinorum saeculo undecimo antiquiorum: bibliographisches Repertorium für die lateinische Dichtung der Antike und des frühen Mittelalters (Göttingen, 1977)
ICL suppl.		D. Schaller & T. Klein, Initia carminum Latinorum saeculo undecimo antiquiorum: bibliographisches Repertorium für die lateinische Dichtung der Antike und des früheren Mittelalters. Suppl.-Bd. (Göttingen, 2005)
ICO		Ioannis Chrysostomi Opera Omnia, ed. S. Gelenius (Basel, 1547)
IMEP		Index of Middle English Prose
IMEV, IMEV(S), NIMEV		The Index of Middle English Verse (1943), Supplement (1965), A New Index of Middle English Verse (2005)
IPMEP		R.E. Lewis, N.F. Blake, and A.S.G. Edwards, The Index of Printed Middle English Prose (1985)
ISTC		Incunabula Short Title Catalogue (https://data.cerl.org/istc/_search)
Jaffé		P. Jaffé, Regesta pontificum Romanorum : ab condita ecclesia ad annum post Christum natum MCXCVIII, 3rd ed., 3 vols (2016-)
Jolliffe		P. S. Jolliffe, A Check-List of Middle English Prose Writings of Spiritual Guidance (New York, 1985)
Kaeppeli		T. Kaeppeli, Scriptores Ordinis Praedicatorum Medii Aevi, 4 vols. (Rome, 1970-1993)
Kenney, Sources		J. F. Kenney, The sources for the early history of Ireland: ecclesiastical. An introduction and guide (Dublin, 1997 (the latest repr. of the 2nd ed. 1966 & 1968))
Krämer, Handschriftenerbe		S. Krämer (with M. Bernhard for vol. 3), Handschriftenerbe des deutschen Mittelalters, 3 vols, MBKDS Ergänzungsband 1 (Munich, 1989–1990)
Kuttner, Repertorium		S. Kuttner, Repertorium der Kanonistik (1140–1234), Studi e testi 71 (Vatican City, 1937; repr. Modena, 1981)
LALME		Angus McIntosh, M. L. Samuels, et al., A Linguistic Atlas of Later Mediaeval English, 4 vols. (Aberdeen, 1988)
Lambert		B. Lambert, Bibliotheca Hieronymiana manuscripta. La tradition manuscrite des œuvres de Saint Jérôme (1969-1972)
Lapidge & Sharpe		Michael Lapidge and Richard Sharpe, A bibliography of Celtic-Latin literature 400-1200 (Dublin, 1985)
Laud Exhib		An Exhibition of Manuscripts to Commemorate the 400th Anniversary of the Birth of Archbishop Laud 7 October 1573-10 January 1634 (Oxford, 1973)
LexMA		Lexikon des Mittelalters, 9 vols, with index vol. (Munich & Zurich, 1977–1999)
Little		A. G. Little, Initia operum Latinorum quae saeculis xiii. xiv. xv. attribuuntur secundum ordinem alphabeti disposita, Publications of the University of Manchester. Historical Series 2 (Manchester, 1904)
LThK		Lexikon für Theologie und Kirche, 3rd revised edition, eds W. Kasper et al., 11 vols (Freiburg, etc., 1993–2001)
Maggioni		G. P. Maggioni (ed.), Iacopo da Varazze, Legenda aurea. Edizione critica, 2 vols, Millennio Medievale 6, Testi 3 (Florence, 1998)
Mairhofer	MSS Mainz	Daniela Mairhofer, Medieval Manuscripts from the Mainz Charterhouse in the Bodleian Library, Oxford: A Descriptive Catalogue (Oxford, 2018)
Mairhofer	MSS Würzburg	Daniela Mairhofer, Medieval manuscripts from Würzburg in the Bodleian Library, Oxford (Oxford, 2014)
MBVP		P. Despont et al. (ed.), Maxima bibliotheca veterum patrum, et antiquorum scriptorum ecclesiasticorum ..., 28 vols (Lyon, etc., 1677–1707)
MGH		Monumenta Germaniae Historica. For the abbreviations for individual series, and links to online volumes, see http://www.mgh.de/dmgh/linking/kuerzel/
Michaud-Quantin, Sommes		P. Michaud-Quantin, Sommes de casuistique et manuels de confession au moyen âge (XII–XVI siècles), Analecta mediaevalia Namurcensia 13 (Louvain, etc., 1962)
Miscellanea Agostiniana		Miscellanea Agostiniana: testi e studi, pubblicati a cura dell’Ordine Eremitano di S. Agostino nel xv centenario dalla morte del Santo Dottore, 2 vols (Rome, 1930 & 1931)
MLGB		Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, 2nd ed. (1964), 3rd digital edition
MMBL		N. R. Ker, Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, 4 vols (Oxford, 1969–1992)
Mohan		G. E. Mohan, Initia operum Franciscalium (XIII–XV s.), suppl. to Franciscan Studies 35–38 (1975–1978)
Mone, Hymnen		F. J. Mone, Lateinische Hymnen des Mittelalters, aus Handschriften herausgegeben und erklärt, 3 vols (Freiburg i. Br., 1853, 1854 & 1855)
OCT		Oxford Classical Texts (Oxford, 1900– )
ODCC		The Oxford dictionary of the Christian Church, ed. F. L. Cross & E. A. Livingstone (Oxford, 1997, rev. 2005)
OECS		Oxford Early Christian Studies (Oxford, 1993– )
OECT		Oxford Early Christian Texts (Oxford, 1971– )
OMT		Oxford Medieval Texts (Oxford, 1967– )
OT		S. J. Ogilvie-Thomson (ed.), The Index of Middle English Prose VIII: Manuscripts Containing Middle English Prose in Oxford College Libraries (Cambridge, 1991)
P&A		Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford, 3 vols. (1966-1973); concordance and supplement by B. Barker-Benfield, 1974
Palmer	Zisterzienser	N. F. Palmer, Zisterzienser und ihre Bücher. Die mittelalterliche Bibliotheksgeschichte von Kloster Eberbach im Rheingau unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der in Oxford und London aufbewahrten Handschriften (Regensburg, 1998)
PG		Patrologia Graeca
Piccard		G. Piccard, Wasserzeichen, Veröffentlichungen der Staatlichen Archivverwaltung Baden-Württemberg, 17 vols in 25 (Stuttgart, 1961–1997)
PL		Patrologia Latina
PLP		E. Trapp, ed., Prosopographisches Lexikon der Palaiologenzeit, 11 vols (Vienna 1976-91)
PLS		Patrologiae cursus completus a J.P. Migne editus et Parisiis anno Domini 1844 excusus. Series Latina : supplementum, ed. A. Hamman, 5 vols. (1958-1974)
Préfaces		D. de Bruyne (ed.), Préfaces de la Bible latine (Namur, 1920)
RGK		Repertorium Der Griechischen Kopisten 800 - 1600
Quétif–Échard, SOP		J. Quétif & J. Échard, Scriptores ordinis paedicatorum recensiti, notisque historicis et criticis illustrati …, 2 vols (Paris, 1719 & 1721; repr. New York, 1959–1961)
RS	Rolls Series	Rerum Britannicarum medii aevi scriptores, or Chronicles and Memorials of Great Britain and Ireland during the Middle Ages, ‘published under the direction of the Master of the Rolls’ [and hence known as the Rolls Series], 99 vols in 259 (London, 1858–1911, 1965)
Salmon		P. Salmon, Les ‘Tituli psalmorum’ des manuscrits latins (Rome: Abbaye Saint-Jérôme; Vatican City: Libreria Vaticana, 1959)
SAO		Sancti Anselmi Opera, ed. F. S. Schmitt, 6 vols in 2, 1968
SBO		Sancti Bernardi Opera, ed. J. Leclerq, C. H. Talbot, H. M. Rochais, 8 vols. (1957-77)
SChr		Sources chrétiennes (Paris, 1941-)
Schneyer		Johannes Baptist Schneyer [et al.], Repertorium der lateinischen Sermones des Mittelalters für die Zeit von 1150-1350, 11 vols. (1969-1990)
Schulte		J. F. Schulte, Die geschichte der quellen und literatur de canonischen rechts von Gratian bis auf die Gegenwart, 3 vols. in 4 (Stuttgart, 1875-1880)
Sharpe	Handlist	R. Sharpe, A Handlist of the Latin Writers of Great Britain and Ireland before 1540 (Turnhout, 1997); ‘Additions and Corrections (1997-2001)’, Publications of the Journal of Medieval Latin 1 (2001), 913-44
Shooner		H. V. Shooner, Codices manuscripti operum Thomae de Aquino, vols 1 & 2 (vol. 1 with H. F. Dondaine), Editores operum sancti Thomae de Aquino 2 & 3 (Rome, 1967 & 1973); vol. 3 (Montréal & Paris, 1985)
SK		D. Schaller and E. Könsgen, Initia carminum Latinorum saeculo undecimo antiquiorum (1977) [digitized]
Smalley, Gospels		B. Smalley, The Gospels in the schools, c. 1100 – c. 1280, History series (Hambledon Press) 41 (London & Ronceverte, 1985)
Stegmüller	Sent.	F. Stegmüller, Repertorium commentariorum in Sententias Petri Lombardi, 2 vols. (Würzburg, 1947); supplement by V. Doucet, Quaracchi, 1954
Stegmüller		F. Stegmüller, Repertorium Biblicum Medii Aevi, 11 vols. (Madrid, 1940 [recte 1950] - 1980) [vols. 8-11 by V. Reinhardt] online: http://www.repbib.uni-trier.de/cgi-bin/rebihome.tcl
STO		S. Thomae Aquinatis opera omnia iussu impensaque Leonis XIII P. M. edita, 1– (Rome, 1882– ); vol. 1, 2nd ed. (Rome, 1989)
StSG		E. Steinmeyer & E. Sievers (ed.), Die althochdeutschen Glossen, 5 vols (Berlin, 1879–1922)
Szirmai		J. A. Szirmai, The archaeology of medieval bookbinding (Aldershot, etc., 1999)
Thorndike & Kibre		L. Thorndike & P. Kibre, A catalogue of incipits of mediaeval scientific writings in Latin, 2nd ed., The Mediaeval Academy of America Publication 29 (London, 1963)
USTC		Universal Short Title Catalogue (https://www.ustc.ac.uk/)
VD16		Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachbereich erschienenen Drucke des 16. Jahrhunderts (https://www.bsb-muenchen.de/sammlungen/historische-drucke/recherche/vd-16/)
Verfasserlexikon		Die deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters: Verfasserlexikon, ed. Kurt Ruh et al. (Berlin, 1978-)
Walther = WIC		H. Walther, Initia carminum ac versuum Medii Aevi posterioris Latinorum (Göttingen, 1959; suppl. 1969)
Walther	Proverbia (nov. ser.)	H. Walther, Proverbia sententiaeque Latinitatis medii aevi: Lateinische Sprichwörter und Sentenzen des Mittelalters in alphabetischer Anordnung, 5 vols, Carmina medii aevi posterioris Latina II/1–5 (Göttingen, 1963–1967); nov. ser.: 3 vols, Carmina medii aevi ... II/7–9 (Göttingen, 1982–1986)
Watson	DMO	Andrew G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 435-1600 in Oxford Libraries (Oxford, 1984)
Watson	Savile	Andrew G. Watson, The Manuscripts of Henry Savile of Banke (London, 1969)
Welter, L’exemplum		J.-Th. Welter, L’exemplum dans la littérature religieuse et didactique du moyen âge (Geneva, 1973, repr. of Paris-Toulouse, 1927)
WZIS		Wasserzeichen-Informationssystem (https://www.wasserzeichen-online.de)
Zumkeller		A. Zumkeller, Manuskripte von Werken der Autoren des Augustiner-Eremitenordens in mitteleuropäischen Bibliotheken (1966)